Miss Hao, who has been dating a Chinese-American man for the past three years, said beauty was not the most important thing and that a noble character should be most highly-prized in a person.

She said her boyfriend was fully behind her decision to have the surgery but she has not told her parents of her plans.

I think society today really needs more beautiful people

Hao Lulu

Miss Hao told the BBC's East Asia Today programme she had not expected the media attention when she was planning the operations.

"It's just a personal decision, I just wanted to become more beautiful," she said.

"As a girl I want to achieve a state of beauty, a state of perfection - not only on the inside but also on the outside.

"I also like others to see how beautiful I am, so that not only makes me feel good, others too.
As society is developing, more people can accept the kind of thing that I'm doing."

But she was "really scared of pain" at the prospect of surgery.

"I started with double skin on my eye lids, got rid of the eye bags and also a nose job," she told East Asia Today. "All that was done at the same time. And it didn't hurt."

Other operations will realign her jawbone and work on her breasts, abdomen, bottom and legs.

Health plan

Miss Hao says she is not really worried about the long-term effects but she will work to keep the benefit of the operations.

"For example after the liposuction operation I will keep doing exercises to make sure the fat doesn't come back. I'll do my best to live a very healthy life to conserve the changes made through surgery."

Evercare has declined to reveal the cost of the project, which is being financed by an unnamed sponsor.